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S. 'HIOKSON BOOKING GOLD LEAF.

N0. 467,347. PatentedJan. 19. 1892..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.v

STEPHEN HIOKSON, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

BOOKING GOLD-LEAF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,34*?, dated January19, 1892. Application tiled November l0, 1891. Serial No. 411,476. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN HIcKsoN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of New York city, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Booking Gold-Leaf, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved method of booking gold, silver, orother metal leaves, so that the same can be handled with great facilitywithout any waste of leaf whether the parts to be covered are large orsmall and located in exposed or protected places.

In the method heretofore patented to John Varley for booking gold-leaf,No. 163,424, dated May 18, 1875, the gold leaves are applied to drysheets of tissue-paper or other suitable backing, after which a numberof loose sheets or sheets made up in the nature of a book are subjectedto heavy pressure. For producing the proper adherence of the leaves withthe sheets the latter had to be prepared by being dried before booking,which was objectionable, owing to the loss of time and extra laborrequired.

The object of this invention is to dispense with the preparatory dryingof the paper and to provide a new method of booking gold, silver, andmetal leaf by which the adherence of the leaf to the paper is producedin a reliable manner, and by which the leaf may be .readily divided intosmaller pieces, as required by the nature of the Work, so as to be' ofconsiderable convenience to the artisan and avoid the waste of leafincidental to the cutting up of the leaves by shears or scissors beforeapplying the saine to the parts to be covered.

My invention consists, first, of the method herein described of bookinggold, silver, and metal leaf, which consists in applying each leaf to asheetof tissue-paper or other suitable backing, which is provided withrows of perforations, and then subjecting the leaves and sheets to heavypressure.

The invention consists, secondly, of asheet of tissuepaper or otherbacking having rows of perforations and metal leaf united there with bypressures.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents 'a top view of onesheet of tissuepaper or other suitable backing with a metal leaf mountedthereon; and Fig. 2 is avertical transverse section on line 2 2, Fig. 1,of a portion of the same drawn on a larger scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending;` parts.

ln carrying out my invention the sheets d of tissue paper or othersuitable backing are provided, preferably, with parallel rows ofperforations a. sheets the gold, silver, or metal leaves h are placed,and a number of them, either in loose sheets or made up in the nature ofa book, is subjected to heavy pressure, so that the adherence of themetal leaves to the perforated sheets is produced. This is caused by theslight sinking in of those parts of the leaves immediately above theperforations of the paper, whereby the close adherence of the leaf tothe tissue-paper is produced. This adherence is overcome when the leafis applied to the sizing of the object to be covered but it issufficient to secure the leaf to the tissue-paper while the same isused, so that the same does not fly off on being subjected to drafts ofair in exposed places norin hand ling the same.

Another advantage of my improved gold, silver, or metal leaf and :itsperforated tissuepaper backing is that a piece of any required size maybe readily torn off Without requiring the cutting of the same withshears or scissors, so that the artisan can cover with great facilitylarger 4or smaller parts, as required, the dividing of the sheet intosmaller parts being readily made along the lines of perforations of thetissuepaper.

Having thus described my invention., what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The method herein described of backing gold, silver, or metal leaf,which consists in applying each leaf to a sheet of tissue-paper or othersuitable backing provided with rows Over these perforated ofperforationsin the same, and then subject- In testimony that I claim theforegoing as ing the leaves and sheets to heavy pressure: my invention Ihave signed my name in pressubstantially as set forth. ence of twosubscribing witnesses.

2. As a new article `of manufacture, asheet STEPHEN IIICKSON. oftissue-paper or other backing having rows Witnesses: of perforations andunited with a gold, silver, OSCAR F. GUNZ, or metal leaf, substantiallyas set forth. CHARLES SCHROEDER.

